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Mingo
 
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All this talk about every fish being killed like the mega sharks and sail fish off the pier is nuts does any one under stand who the real apex predators are....US! if you can drop a bait down and bring up a legal snapper in under 30 sec there not apex predators and if Lou Nanny can catch a legal sailfish off the pier after an hour fight on a 706 thats not so apex. but most important if you can catch and put a 596.6 pound tiger freaking shark in a god dang 20ft flats boat!!!!!!!! he isn't an apex preadator!
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Snapper
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I read what you wrote, does this have a valid meaning or just venting due to people complaining about killing fish!!! Just curious. 
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Ruby Red Lip
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| Webster defines a "predator" as "an animal that lives by predation". And defines "predation" as "1. the act of preying or plundering; 2. a mode of life in which food is primarily obtained by killing and consuming animals." I am not a PETA or a tree hugger, but the following questions beg discussion. Having defined predator and predation; is killing a shark, or any animal for the fun of it an act of predation? Other definitions to ponder: "Kill. verb, 1. To deprive of life. 2. to put an end to. adj. An act of killing" "Sport. 1. A source of diversion. 2. Physical activity engaged in for pleasure." "Fun. Something that provides amusement or enjoyment." And this one. "__________, one who has not lost contact with reality but who engages in abnormally agressive and seriously irresponsible behavior with little or no feeling of guilt."
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Snapper
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Snapper
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| You can call us apex when we have the opportunity to have all of our wits and technology available to us, but just like any other animal we can be caught unawares and become the prey. Humans often find themselves prey to any number of animals. So, by your explanation that on any given saturday we are the apex predator and are able to kill sharks and blue marlin, have that same boat we are on as the apex sink and we quickly drop to the lower middle of the food chain.
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Trigger
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| Sharks kill an average of four humans a year, we kill an average of four million sharks a year. Before the westward expansion of the White man in North America there were aprox 60 million Bison on the Great Plains. That number was reduced to around one thousand in less than two hundred years. We have pushed countless species into extinction. We are something, but "Apex Predator" aint one of them.
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Mingo
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| I love to fish and i do keep some of the fish I catch. I've never caught an "apex predator" i guess because there are so few around ( and because I'm not a great fisherman). But there are millions of people on this planet that can catch fish much better than me. If they all keep every apex predator they catch, there won't be anymore around. Just like if everyone kept every snapper they caught, there wouldn't be many around. It might be fun for us to do that, but just because something is fun and just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should do it. I like to think that someday I'll take one of my grandchildren fishing. If we don't preserve what we have by sometimes exercising a little restraint, we won't have it forever and my decedents and yours won't be able to enjoy what we all love to do.
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